2017-18 Contest
Goddess Theme
Goddess is the theme for the annual contest.
Entries will be voted on at the 2018 February 9th regular membership meeting.
2016-17 Contest Rules Are Simple
1. You must be a paid member of the Kansas City Bead Society to participate in the contest and/or to vote in the contest.
2. Your contest piece must be an original design with a Goddess theme and contain beads.
3. You may use any technique including, but not limited to: off-loom beadweaving, loom
beadweaving, bead stringing, bead embroidery, bead crochet, bead knitting, macrame,
kumihimo, wirework, metalwork, polymer clay, and mixed media, just to name a few
possibilities.
4. Please name your contest piece.
5. Contest pieces must be turned in at the February 9, 2018 Bead Society meeting along with a
completed entry form. If you are not able to attend the meeting, you may still enter the contest by submitting
your piece and a completed entry form to a member of the Program Committee prior to the meeting.
Prizes will be awarded as follows:
1st Prize: $75.00
2nd Prize: $50.00
3rd Prize: $25.00
All contest pieces will be held by the Kansas City Bead Society after the February 9, 2018
meeting to be used for the following:
Display in locked cases at the Gem & Mineral Show in March
Photographs to be published on KCBS website and/or Facebook page.
Contest pieces will be returned after the close of the Gem & Mineral Show on Sunday or at the next KCBS
monthly meeting.